Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-28
purchase and operate. This is certainly
Fort Worth's golden opportunity.

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There may be an luva prevalent among
the people in most walks of life that the
| United States have seen the greet rail-
road schemes OF this century perfected
and thst Der, after such roads as are built
will be but the continuation of old lines
for comparatively short distances, but
such is not the opinion CT railroad men
and CREST railroad engineers of this coun-
try. Schemes that are gigantic and grand
in their conception wi surely he exscut-
ed and our own Texas Snd this city Of Fort
Worth will bear no small part in their de-
velopment. There are people in Fort
Worth and many Of them in Texas who
will remember the early days Of the
T. xas and Pacific and how impossible it
seemed that this road should ever
be built from the piney woods
of East Texas TO FL Paso. Captain Vol
neV Hall, one OF the best informed and
most enthusiastic railroad men in Texas,
relaies an snecdute which sptly il ustrstes
the feeling in regard to this road. At the
time the Texas and Pacific was
built to Lopgview, and Mr.. Hall who
had some knowledge of the road was
sested in the flee of his brother in the
city OF Louisville, KY, on the walls hung
maps ut the different states and the
United States, showing the railroads OF
tie day. The black line repre- Fnting the
Il xss and Pacific stopped at L0pgview
and way across the large msp of the erest
state of Texas was q dot with the words
''Et Psso" printed above it. Between
the TWO cities was e vast expense
If map representing miles and miles
Cf territory in &n unknown country. The
city of Fort Worth was not even located
or that map and the courses of some OF
the rivers were not even laid down, while
Great American Desert or Stsked
Palms," in large letters, rested
ike blight on the fair
face of the map of the richest state in the
American union. Mr.. Hall aud hie brother
discussed the Texas and the Pacific, aud
looking at the map, Mr.. Hall asked:
Scan it be possible that
the road can ever build across
that country and that distance
o FL PasoP" and the opinion was that it
vas thu next thing 10 vision
ary scheme. Shortly sfterward MIR. Ha
came to TeEas, snd some years after
war the Texas and Pacific was built to
FL Paso. To day there may b.
those in Fort Worth who may
look at the meps Of the United States and
Texas ana smile IS they follow with the
we the great lines projected By The Ga
zETTE for the VanCeroiltS from NV
YOrK through Chicago and st. L MS TO
Fort Worth, thence to the Pa ifc
ocean, seeking the port of Topolobampo
and connecting the far northeast with the
far southwest. They will smile again
wOen they look at San Francisco and then
at New Orleans and between the two fiad
the city of Fort Worth, and say "impos-
sible" when they resd that as certain as
death is, SO certain is it that
another grand Transcontinental line will
connect these three great cities. The
young giant is in the line Of the process
sion, all the great cities of the country
have not been built as yet, but one great
city Is building, and railroads ere going
TO do much in The work Of building. That
city is Fort Worth.